Every now and then, the folks over at BBC Culture like to put together lists for movie fans to argue over. Last year they released a list of the top 100 American films of all time and now this year they have decided to meet the “death of cinema” debate head on by compiling the top 100 films released since the year 2000. Although it is a British publication, they have polled 177 film critics from around the world and in the end they concluded that David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive is the greatest film of the past 16 years. As expected, the list is pretty light on genre films and comedies (The Grand Budapest Hotel being the only one that kinda qualifies for the latter). Still, there is no denying that there are some truly fantastic films on this list. Do you agree with their picks? Check out the full list after the jump and see what you think.

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Comes off as pretty darn pretentious to me but I suppose that’s sort of the point of getting BBC Culture to put together a list.

Maybe a top 100 (or maybe 25-50) of the 21st century special episode of FJ at some point? Eh? Ehhhh??? Not a bad idea…

Jr

I haven’t seen every movie on here but it looks like a pretty legit list. The original article is interesting and comments on the discussion from the most recent podcast. What does “American” mean in this list though? The original article is title “The 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films” but in the body of the article they sometimes throw in “American” although many of these films are not American in the general sense. I could just be ignorant in regards to how this is defined.

Larry Morgan

Why the hell does everyone think Mulholland Drive is so good? Ugh.

Tommy

Pretentious? I’d say most of those movies are well known and generally popular.

Tommy

Isn’t Toni Erdmann a comedy? I’d say all of Wes’ films here, and Inherent Vice are comedies, even if they contain a heavy theme or two.
edit: Ratatouille’s more a comedy than anything else.

No one important

No love for South Korean Joon-ho Bong, director of the amazing Memories of Murder and the Host. This list is uncultured and reeks of diarrhea.

RockJoker

No “Drive”, and yet there is “Spotlight”. Mkaay… Good list though.

CagneyB

Mulholland Drive being number one on this list is like The White Album being number one on a list of the greatest all-time albums. Lame.

Jonny Ashley

I like

Sam

Nice to see Zodiac and Inside Llewyn Davis place highly also cool to see Inherent Vice get some recognition. Otherwise seems like a fairly typical list

Personal biggest omissions I see would be Memories of Murder, Punch-Drunk Love, Hot Fuzz (or Shaun of the Dead), Take Shelter and Incendies.

Frankie Knuckles

Double Like (Pretentious and List Idea)

Sam

Wouldn’t that be pretty much your standard top 100 almost Frankie?

Strybeck

It’s almost Spinal-Tapian that this top 100 goes to 102. I’ve seen 62 of them, which was easy to see using a Letterboxd version: http://letterboxd.com/shughes/list/bbc-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films/
Many others are on my watchlist. A few were on my “heard of them, but not in a hurry to see them” list, but I may have to change that. The list is very Oscar-baity. Not much horror, sci-fi, or comedy. Coming from the BBC, I’m surprised there’s no The Trip, Philomena, or Edgar Wright films.

Dan Feeney

Sort of boring list, with scores for In the Mood, Spirited Away, The Master, Grand Budapest, Eternal Sunshine, Wall-E, Crouching Tiger and a bunch of others much much too high, Gleaners and I, Let the Right One in and and The Secret in Their eyes should be much much higher – missing is the absolute one of a kind masterpiece Hard to Be a God by Alexei German (which I would put top 3), Bruno Dumont isn’t represented (I’d pick Outside Satan), No Country and Werckmeister should be much higher, but where’s Kelly Riechart?